steelies marbles

ro1798

does anyone remember how many times a steelie was, "like my steelie is a 42 timer".

just found mine and i swear is it not as big as i remeber:(


ronan

Hagar

Do you want to see my scunger?

Eminem

Yeah i remember them they were brill;)

ro1798

when were marbles big in ireland????????? my whole road used to play every day very early 90's i think

Eminem

Yeah they were i used to play with them in primary school with my mates ah the memories;)

johnnyrotten

Ahh the memories. My Granda was a Crane mechanic so I got loads of Steelies ( Ball Bearings )from him

ro1798

hens teeth in my part of the work, local garages were hounded but they never helped, winning one was worth the 150 times you had to dodge it.

Dingatron

Go back a wee bit further lol. I remember playing with them in the mid-late 70's.

Hagar

Early 60's here...
It's well past my bedtime.
Where's that Horlicks?
Have I got a clean nappy?
Give me half a Viagra again nurse.
No I'm not expecting any action, I just want enough to stop me rolling out of bed.

Capt'n Midnight

Some of the people I went to school with had fathers who worked for CIE. Locomotives have large ball bearings. You'd have to hit it like a million times to win one.

ro1798

train bearings, jeasus the king of steelies.
remember a golyier( dont know if it spelt like that) it was a 12 timer.

ronan

buzzerxx

can anyone remember exactly when u got to do a dropsy? you would hold the marble up to ur eye and try drop it onto target marble.

Hagar

Correct. If there was "no kneelies" you had to stand. otherwise you dropped it from your eye in the kneeling position.

buzzerxx

god we where easily pleased ,no psp's or xboxes back then !

ro1798

used to come in from a tough game of marbles, to play flimbos quest on the c64, tear to my eye.

r3nu4l

I remember substituting big steelies for gollyiers when I was playing against my mates because the big steelies would sometimes break the other persons marble in 2!!:eek:

There was no point in winning if you broke the marble you were winning.

Crystals were great as were the super-gollyiers (they were huge)!
I remember if you didn't agree at the start of the game that it was for "keepies" there could be fights and you wouldn't speak to your mate for a whole day. Then you were so bored at home you would call over to him and offer to play the game again.

Yep, those were the days

Degsy

Then there were "chalkies" which were usually the stoppers from victorian lemonade bottles,as were a lot of crystals in the early seventies.

lostexpectation

we used to get the men from the factory over to wall to take bearings out of shopping trollys, I remember getting chased all the way home after a disputed match

gollyiers is wierd name

r3nu4l

I almost forgot about "Candies" as we used to call them, solid white with strips of colour on the outside, probably similar to chalkies!

_Kaiser_

I had a gold steelie that I won kid was sick at havin to hand it over

ciaran76

There was Frenchies and Cats Eyes too.

gaui3d0pnbz86o

lets not forget stonies and inkies too!

stonies were rare, i had one that was bigger then a super golly!

inkies were funny thinks, i remember two lads in my school went to the local snooker hall and robbed a tray of snooker balls, incl the white, and claimed they had ultra inkies!

iregk

my uncle got me the ultime steelie once. He worked in furniture and from somewhere got me a sold brass ball that was the same size as a gollier. It weight about a stone!!! It was the kind of marbles and I still have it to this day.

The memories thought coming up here, crystals, golliers, cats eyes, stonies and candies.

Who remembers the clear ones with nothign but red in the middle? Rare as snakes legs they were, we used to call them volcanoes. Winnign one of those was like winning the lotto, you could loose it easily but it was knowing you had one of a kind!